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Manchester minds: A university history of ideas
A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history.
The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishment of The University of Manchester in its earliest form. The first of England’s civic universities, Manchester has been home and host to a huge number of influential thinkers and generated world-changing ideas.
This book presents a rich account of the remarkable contribution that people associated with The University of Manchester have made to human knowledge. A who’s who of Manchester greats, it presents fascinating snapshots of pioneering artists, scholars and scientists, from the poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth to the economist Arthur Lewis, the computer scientist Alan Turing and the physicist Brian Cox.
The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishment of The University of Manchester in its earliest form. The first of England’s civic universities, Manchester has been home and host to a huge number of influential thinkers and generated world-changing ideas.
This book presents a rich account of the remarkable contribution that people associated with The University of Manchester have made to human knowledge. A who’s who of Manchester greats, it presents fascinating snapshots of pioneering artists, scholars and scientists, from the poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth to the economist Arthur Lewis, the computer scientist Alan Turing and the physicist Brian Cox.
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392 pages, Hardcover
Published September 3, 2024
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June 1, 2026
Managed to get a free copy of this, I've read about three quarters of it, the unread parts are sections I’m not particularly interested in - engineering, computing and the like.
Didn't really plan to read so much as I assumed from looking at it that it must just be a neat way for the uni to flap its gums about it's achievements... I think it's partly this, but it has more to offer.
I was pleasantly surprised, there's a lot of good stories and interesting tales, couple of which are anti-establishment. It's not afraid to chronicle the universities shortcomings, particularly over the last twenty years.
For someone new to Manchester I feel it's been a good way to discover more about the history of the city and how it's diverse communities of people have developed relationships to it's academic institutions.
Didn't really plan to read so much as I assumed from looking at it that it must just be a neat way for the uni to flap its gums about it's achievements... I think it's partly this, but it has more to offer.
I was pleasantly surprised, there's a lot of good stories and interesting tales, couple of which are anti-establishment. It's not afraid to chronicle the universities shortcomings, particularly over the last twenty years.
For someone new to Manchester I feel it's been a good way to discover more about the history of the city and how it's diverse communities of people have developed relationships to it's academic institutions.
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